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    Thread: RTK Exercises
Post: RTK Exercises

Hi everyone, I have just changed my old compaq laptop for an Acer Mini Laptop. The thing is that in my old pc I had a link where there were exercises of RTK. They were pages in PDF with the name of t...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 0 723 2009-12-27, 9:14 pm
    Thread: Place to get tips about stories...
Post: Place to get tips about stories...

I was thinking on buying the Spanish version of RTK -because I have the English version-, but when I saw the price I decided to continue in English hahahahah!!
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 11 1,737 2009-09-16, 11:07 pm
    Thread: Problems recognizing kanjis
Post: Problems recognizing kanjis

Hello everyone, On the last weeks I've been watching some Japanese sitcoms and I've realized I have trouble recognizing the kanjis. For example I can draw the kanji when the key word is given, but so...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 10 1,908 2009-09-03, 11:19 pm
    Thread: Starting out with RTK1!
Post: Starting out with RTK1!

-I had little knowledge of Japanese when I started with the Heisig course, I'm at 500, and I really think it helps when you're figuring out what a sentence means. -I don't think AJATT would fit wit m...
armando_amaya General discussion 24 3,979 2009-08-20, 1:19 am
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

I've just reached the kanji 500!!
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 526 167,228 2009-08-20, 12:45 am
    Thread: Do your friends think you're crazy?
Post: Do your friends think you're crazy?

Well, nobody laughs at me or says I'm crazy. Some people find it entertaining or amazing. I just don't like telling people I'm doing self study because some of them may not consider self study as an o...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 119 30,359 2009-08-16, 6:48 pm
    Thread: All English All The Time
Post: All English All The Time

mezbup Wrote:armando_amaya Wrote:If you're looking for pronuciation you should try Wordweb. A Japanese people will find the phonetic system used in this dictionary very easy to use. About the English...
armando_amaya General discussion 37 7,646 2009-08-12, 8:12 pm
    Thread: Admonish, chastise, rebuke...
Post: Admonish, chastise, rebuke...

Download wordweb dictionary. I check the meaning of every word which does not have an physical reference. But only if you have a good knowledge of your language (which is not acquire just by being a n...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 7 3,412 2009-08-12, 6:01 am
    Thread: Deadlocks?
Post: Deadlocks?

Well, I stopped two weeks because of school. Now I'm at 390, but I've been feeling that some of the kanji in these lessons are very hard.
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 42 8,063 2009-08-12, 5:51 am
    Thread: All English All The Time
Post: All English All The Time

If you're looking for pronuciation you should try Wordweb. A Japanese people will find the phonetic system used in this dictionary very easy to use. About the English accent...Almost everybody in my ...
armando_amaya General discussion 37 7,646 2009-08-12, 5:38 am
    Thread: Fail
Post: Fail

My retention rates are usually from 80 to 100, but that's because I don't add many words per day (I fixed the number at 12 in order to complete the book by December 31th; of course I'm not doing just ...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 10 1,942 2009-08-11, 6:03 pm
    Thread: Is it woth buying the book?
Post: Is it woth buying the book?

Oh my god! Only 25 USD!! That's amazing, there's an Spanish version which costs like 80 USD, and in my country (taking in account the poorness, the cost of living and the salaries) that's too much. I ...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 12 2,078 2009-08-01, 9:25 pm
    Thread: Best Way to Pace New Cards and Reviews
Post: Best Way to Pace New Cards and Reviews

Hii. I don't read stories from here, I just read from the book and work on them plus the ones I think up. Of course my pace is not as fast as your because I'm doing maybe 25-30 per day.
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 14 3,174 2009-08-01, 1:34 am
    Thread: Second Part of the book
Post: Second Part of the book

Hi everybody, I've just finished the first part of the book (276 kanjis). Now I'm moving to the second one, I've just read some of the kanjis and I found it very similar to the first part. I'm a visu...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 2 878 2009-07-31, 11:09 pm
    Thread: I just finished Rtk2 please congratulate me
Post: I just finished Rtk2 please congratulate me

Congratulations!!
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 23 5,272 2009-07-31, 11:00 pm
    Thread: Spanish
Post: Spanish

TheTrueBlue Wrote:Hey taijuando, a fellow New Yorker! Here's coming at ya from Marine Park! Here's a website with a "Curso de Japonés". Good luck! http://www.gorinkai.com/nihongo/ Hii, when you get ...
armando_amaya Off topic 19 2,927 2009-07-29, 1:17 am
    Thread: Spanish
Post: Spanish

Yes, I've been using wordweb for a long time. I hope my English skills get better too.
armando_amaya Off topic 19 2,927 2009-07-28, 2:05 pm
    Thread: Spanish
Post: Spanish

Hiii!! I speak Spanish, I'm a native speaker. I'm learning Japanese in English, I was wondering if that's bad: learning a language through another language. Random comment: sometimes it happens I kn...
armando_amaya Off topic 19 2,927 2009-07-28, 4:59 am
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

Hi, I am at 200 exactly. Like almost a month ago I was at 70-80, I can't remember. I was studying RTK before, but because I had two horrible final tests weeks I couldn't study properly those days, aft...
armando_amaya Remembering the Kanji 908 186,241 2009-07-28, 4:50 am